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Hasn't the word "filibuster" come to mean something other than our mental image of an old southern gentleman reading from the American Red Cross Cook Book and Washington phone directory? Have they not ritualized this process?

Return to the physical filibuster would not be a bad thing. If it's really important to someone, let him stand for hours on end to oppose it.

While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun

Hasn't the word "filibuster" come to mean something other than our mental image of an old southern gentleman reading from the American Red Cross Cook Book and Washington phone directory? Have they not ritualized this process?

You mean when Robert "Sheets" Byrd was blocking a vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Hasn't the word "filibuster" come to mean something other than our mental image of an old southern gentleman reading from the American Red Cross Cook Book and Washington phone directory? Have they not ritualized this process?

Return to the physical filibuster would not be a bad thing. If it's really important to someone, let him stand for hours on end to oppose it.

I tend to agree with that Nancy.

The difference between pigs and people is that when they tell you you're cured it isn't a good thing.